What's with requiring your SSN to register for a tournament. I don't even use it to get car insurance quotes what makes them think I'm going to hand it over to someone to write it down and keep it in their records. I don't know about other people, but ratings and points aren't so important that I would try to have a better player play under my name.

ZAMson wrote:it's for tax purposes. there's a lengthy discussion of it on the pdga board.

not a chance in hell i'd give my SSN to register for a tournament.

That's what I read, but I don't think it should apply for AMs. How many amateurs actually bag more than $600 in payout for a given year. Even most of the Advanced players don't get that much because they stick to tourney's around they're area. Even very few Pro's don't make that much.

They already have my SSN from my PDGA membership so I think that should be enough. It almost seems like they're pawning off some of the work that they have to do on the players.